How different do random seeds need to be?

Question

Consider code like this (Python):

import random

for i in [1, 2, 3, 4]:
    random.seed(i)
    randNumbers = [random.rand() for i in range(100)] # initialize         


        

Answer 1

The seeds themselves should be random so that the output is unpredictable. There can be problems if the seeds differ only in one or two bits (as this question demonstrates).